Jamie's School Dinners

Kuali Baba SG

For those of you who get Discovery Travel & Living, 'Jamie's School Dinners' is on Tuesday nights. I watched the second episode yesterday and it was fascinating.

Put simply, almost all the children at the Durham school Jamie Oliver visited in yesterday's episode were eating complete processed junk during their growing years. Those who eat free meals get spam and fries...or turkey twisters and alien face chicken patties (70% of this is just fat, salt and preservatives) from the canteen, whose food is supplied by some big corporation.

Those who brought lunch from home weren't faring any better...they have cheese and crackers (not the gourmet style but the Kraft-like stuff), or tomato ketchup sandwiches ( Shocked !). And even meals at home weren't very different. The kids get terrible mood swings and some of them even constipated for up to 6 weeks!

Jamie managed (with lots of difficulty) to get the children to eat healthy food, and in the end they wolfed down the lunch he cooked on the last day (roast marinated chicken, salad with olive oil and pasta with a 7-vegetable sauce) Mr. Green And these were children who didn't even know what onions, beets, asparagus, celery, etc looked like a few months before! Laughing

Oh, and there was a segment where Bill Clinton turned up at his restaurant in London...and then wanted the menu that was approved 2 weeks before changed! Rolling Eyes All the food that had been readied went to waste and Oliver understandably didn't want to meet him. Wankers!

Now this is reality TV, not a bunch of unshaved people backstabbing each other in a jungle Laughing

Kuali Baba SG

Here the homepage:

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/J/jamies_school_dinners/

For Heng: It's on Channel 4

fudgester SG

I heard that some kids literally puked after getting their first taste of vegetables. Shocked

I guess their systems are way too used to processed food.

Fatum SG

I love this show on the food network too .....

some of the younger kids cried when they were served vegetables ! ... Laughing

The man who was death SG

I like watching oliver cook!!!!!!!!! Mr. Green

choco B SG

Last night was an interesting episode. It shows that kid tend to be more receptive when they’re involved hands-on in the project, and if there’s fun activities involved.

the Bear SG

imagine the stuff you eat at McDung, Burger Kink, Kentucky Fried Crap and Tacky Hell...

makes the high-fat stuff i eat seem healthy in comparison Laughing

laurence82 SG

Man, Singapore need Oliver to add the twist

The number of overweight, big sized kids living in my block is increasing

and they are prolly not even Sec 1

the Bear SG

i have a feeling they have been existing on regular diets of McCrap...

or that their folks don't know the first thing about normal cooking... and are feeding them the equivalent of the aforementioned "ketchup sandwich" Razz

laurence82 SG

I rem the only time i get to see KFC or Mac is when i go into the next town, even then, it was merely passing by to go to my mum's workplace.

I can only touch the ketchup bottles..it was ketchup bottles then

arghh the agony

Fatum SG

and you can't count on NS to slim one down anymore ....

with the 2 years thingy on now .... you'll come out the same size you went in ... Razz

[email protected] SG

the one time i really liked it when he cooked was when he tried to make a salad(technically not cooking) while in the back of a van being driven around the Top Gear test track by the Stig. Well hilarious!

Rhonda SG

I read about the show on BBC's Good Food mag way before the show reached our shores. Read about the good that Jamie Oliver was doing for the schoolkids.

Had to work night duty last night, so totally missed the show. Crying or Very sad But hey, I was utterly shocked to learn that there are kids in the UK who grew up on processed foods alone and haven't even eaten vegetables!! Surprised Shocked Shocked

I mean, that is soooooo unbelievable!! Shocked What irresponsible parents the poor kids have! Parents ought to take more care with their kiddos' diet!! I mean, they're in their growing up years, formative years, and good nutrition is just sooooo darn important!!

Man, this is atrocious! Neutral

[email protected] SG

in a sense, the kids get a lot of leeway in growing up. Parents don't mollycoodle them. But there is a fine line between sensible space giving and totally not giving a damn about your kids. Some guidance is still needed, just not spoon feeding. Over-liberalism can be just as damaging as parents with an iron fist.

Rhonda SG

There's this cook show where the chef drives around in a van made to look like a giant toaster and he parks wherever he feels like it, and starts cooking for the folks! Very Happy He's good with improvising, and his recipes are all pretty easy yet, they all look delicious! He's very quick and has a good sense of humour too.

Hmm... can't remember what that show is called though. Razz

laurence82 SG

You know, they need to start importing really fresh veggies into SG

The stuff we got are the tasteless aeroponics hydroponics (did i spell right?) ones, or some days overdue

If you get to those rural areas, India for example accordign to one of my Sikh friends, the veggies are pucked straight out, and they are juicy, fresh, chewy and delectable.

Even a carnivore would become a herbivore overnight.

My Sikh friend, swear by this. Laughing

the Bear SG

The Surreal Gourmet...

The Stig rules! Laughing

btw, Mark Webber came within 0.4s of Damon Hill's time for the course in a little car.. and in the wet!

Rhonda SG

Well, experts in child psychology and even docs and nurses in pediatrics, will quickly tell you that all kids go through milestones with each passing age. Up till the age of six, I think (cannot quite remember Razz ), a kid is not entirely capable of making good decisions.

When a kid is just 3-4, you really have to be firm about discipline and giving instructions and nope, they are too young then to make decisions like making the right nutritional choices! Razz Laughing

You shouldn't give your kids freedom before they have the judgement and mental faculties to deal with it and have good decision-making skills. Knowing when is the right time is really necessary!

[email protected] SG

oh u should have seen jamie in the van. He was actually sliding around a LOT! the ingredients basically went all over the place(most of it over the front of jamie's shirt and his face). it was a real TOSSED salad! Laughing

laurence82 SG

Heck, i rem my parents trying to force many things on me that i dont like to eat

even now

like bittergourd, asparagus, celery

they taste bitter..duh

but preference change over time

i used to hate mussel porridge, now i love it

Mr. Green